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Government tenders in Germany: where they are published.
Germany publishes procurement through the official notice data service oeffentlichevergabe.de and the federal portal Bund.de, but the federal structure means the Länder and municipal buyers publish through their own platforms: TRINTA maps 30 German sources, 15 of them regional. Above the EU thresholds, German notices also appear on TED, which TRINTA reads every day.
The national channels
These are the public, national-level sources: anyone can find them in one search. They carry a large share of the notices, not all of them.
How to find public tenders in Germany: the official steps
The official channels, in the order a company searches them, each step tied to the law or the official page it was read on. The same steps in German.
Search the federal publication service, the Bekanntmachungsservice at oeffentlichevergabe.de. It is the central portal for notices from federal, Land and local contracting authorities and is freely accessible; a company account based on ELSTER is only needed to save notices and searches and to forward them.
Source: oeffentlichevergabe.de
Since October 2023, notices of EU-wide procedures go to the EU Publications Office through the Datenservice Öffentlicher Einkauf, a service run by the Procurement Office of the Federal Ministry of the Interior. Under the Public Procurement Regulation (VgV) they are published, freely accessible, on the Bekanntmachungsservice at the same time.
section 10a(5) VgV, section 114(3) GWB. Source: service.bund.de, gesetze-im-internet.de, gesetze-im-internet.de
Check service.bund.de as well. Federal, Land and local contracting authorities post their notices there directly, or they arrive by import from 70 cooperating procurement platforms, including platforms that publish below the EU threshold.
Source: service.bund.de
Above the EU thresholds the EU Publications Office publishes the notice on TED, the online version of the Supplement to the EU Official Journal: free of charge and with information in the 24 official EU languages, so it can be read by bidders who do not read German.
section 40(2) VgV. Source: gesetze-im-internet.de, ted.europa.eu
You do not bid on the Bekanntmachungsservice but on the procurement platform linked from the notice's detail page. The federal platform is the e-Vergabe at evergabe-online.de; Länder and municipalities name their own in their notices.
In an EU-wide procedure the notice gives an electronic address where the procurement documents can be downloaded free of charge, without restriction, in full and directly, and the contracting authority may not require registration to see the notice or the documents.
sections 41(1) and 9(3) VgV. Source: gesetze-im-internet.de, gesetze-im-internet.de
Read the notice as a record: it is built in eForms and carries, among other fields, the address of the documents (BT-15), whether bids are submitted electronically (BT-17), the language of the tender (BT-97), the deadline for tenders (BT-131) and the CPV code (BT-262). In an EU-wide procedure it also names the selection criteria and the review chamber (Vergabekammer) to turn to over an infringement.
sections 10a(1) and 37(3) VgV, section 122(4) GWB. Source: docs.ted.europa.eu, gesetze-im-internet.de, gesetze-im-internet.de, gesetze-im-internet.de
Each fact read in its official source on .
What the registers show for Germany
From January to September 2026 the Bekanntmachungsservice first published 135,890 contract notices: 68,556 (50.4%) in EU-wide procedures, 51,692 (38.0%) under national procurement rules (UVgO, VOB, VOL, Haushaltsrecht) and 15,642 (11.5%) stating no legal framework. TRINTA counted the service's monthly OpenData exports, each notice once, in its first version; corrections and later versions are not counted. The national figures are a floor: the duty to send notices through the federal data service in section 10a of the VgV does not apply below the EU thresholds, and what a Land or a municipality publishes only on its own platform is not here.
In the same months 63,704 award notices appeared. 42,543 of the 44,513 EU-wide ones state the number of tenders received; of the 14,735 national ones, none does. How much competition there is below the thresholds therefore cannot be counted from this register, and this page does not estimate it.
Above the thresholds TRINTA counts on TED, the EU Official Journal: German contracting authorities published 44,344 award notices there from January to September 2026. Of the 53,002 lots with a readable bid count, 11,031 (20.8%) received exactly one tender, and the median lot drew 3.
Bids from abroad are rare, counted on TED from January to September 2026: 5.8% of lots received at least one tender from another EEA country and 1.6% one from outside the EEA, measured on the 49.0% and 48.1% of lots that carry the field. 1,142 of the 40,792 notices naming a winner (2.7%) went to at least one company established outside Germany, most often in Austria (283), the Netherlands (143), Switzerland (106). The country is the one the notice gives for the winner, so a foreign group's German subsidiary counts as German.
For scale, the official frame: the procurement statistics of the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy report 199,334 public contracts and concessions worth €135.2bn for 2024; 88 per cent of the contracts were awarded below the thresholds. That report counts contracts and the figures above count notices; the two are not combined here.
| Month | EU-wide | National | Not stated | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January 2026 | 6,312 | 5,056 | 1,336 | 12,704 |
| February 2026 | 7,200 | 5,773 | 1,548 | 14,521 |
| March 2026 | 8,833 | 6,622 | 1,900 | 17,355 |
| April 2026 | 7,594 | 6,208 | 1,781 | 15,583 |
| May 2026 | 7,752 | 5,934 | 1,751 | 15,437 |
| June 2026 | 7,341 | 5,627 | 1,767 | 14,735 |
| July 2026 | 8,476 | 6,422 | 1,958 | 16,856 |
| August 2026 | 7,596 | 4,934 | 1,569 | 14,099 |
| September 2026 | 7,452 | 5,116 | 2,032 | 14,600 |
Contract notices on the Bekanntmachungsservice by month of first publication and legal framework, counted on the service's OpenData exports.
| CPV division | Award notices |
|---|---|
| 45 Construction work | 14,872 |
| 71 Architectural, construction, engineering and inspection services | 7,367 |
| 90 Sewage, refuse, cleaning and environmental services | 2,378 |
| 34 Transport equipment and auxiliary products to transportation | 2,083 |
| 72 IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support | 1,296 |
Award notices from German contracting authorities on TED, the 39,289 notices (88.6%) whose CPV codes all sit in one division; the rest cannot be given a division without guessing.
- Bekanntmachungsservice: 9 monthly exports of its OpenData interface (csv.zip, CC0), January 2026 to September 2026, fetched on 12 October 2026. Each notice counts once, in its first version, in the month the service published it; 3,423 notices whose first version appeared before January 2026 are left out. The legal framework is the field the notice itself carries, grouped as the service's own "Vergaberechtsrahmen" filter groups it.
- TED: every award notice (eForms) from January to September 2026 with Germany as the buyer's first country, fetched up to 12 October 2026. The unit of the bid figures is the lot, and only the total count of tenders is read (BT-759 with BT-760 "tenders"); lots declaring zero or more than 500 tenders are dropped. Shares are truncated, never rounded up.
- Every figure was computed by a script in the repository on two independent routes that had to agree: scripts/gen-de-bekanntmachungen.mjs and scripts/gen-ted-markets.mjs.
And everything that publishes beside them
Beyond the national channels, 28 more sources in Germany publish their own notices. We count them by category without naming them: the complete source map is what sets the radar apart, and it is not published.
- 15regional, state and municipal buyers with their own portals
- 4state-owned enterprises publishing their own notices
- 2public agencies and institutions publishing directly
- 2defence buyers
- 2donor-funded project units publishing their own notices
- 2health buyers, hospitals and medical purchasing agencies
- 1ministries with their own tender sections
For a supplier the consequence is arithmetic: the contract that fits best may be published by a regional buyer nobody watches, while everyone's attention stays on the national portal.
What TRINTA does on this market
TRINTA reads these sources every day so the company does not have to. The radar is built per client: it starts from the company's real catalogue, builds a multilingual keyword profile, then scores every notice 0 to 100 against what the company actually sells, with the reasoning shown. Procedure documents are retrieved and attached, and a short scored list arrives each morning.
The same radar covers 170+ countries and 1,627 mapped official platforms, plus the multilateral lenders. A company selling in Germany rarely sells only in Germany.
Frequently asked questions
01Where are public tenders in Germany published?
Public tenders in Germany are published across 30 sources TRINTA has mapped. The national channels are oeffentlichevergabe.de and Bund.de. Beyond those, 28 more sources publish their own notices: 15 regional, state and municipal buyers with their own portals, 4 state-owned enterprises publishing their own notices, 2 public agencies and institutions publishing directly, 2 defence buyers, 2 donor-funded project units publishing their own notices, 2 health buyers, hospitals and medical purchasing agencies and 1 ministries with their own tender sections. Above the EU thresholds, notices also appear on TED, the Tenders Electronic Daily.
02Do regional and local buyers in Germany publish their own tenders?
Yes. 15 regional, state and municipal buyers in Germany run their own procurement portals in addition to oeffentlichevergabe.de. TRINTA counts them by category rather than listing them, because the full source map is part of the product. The radar reads both layers daily, so a notice from a regional buyer is scored and surfaced the same way a national one is.
03How does TRINTA monitor tenders in Germany?
TRINTA reads Germany's official sources every day, 30 mapped, 24 read by a dedicated connector. The radar is built per client: it starts from the company's real catalogue, builds a multilingual keyword profile, scores every notice 0 to 100 for fit with the reasoning shown, and attaches the procedure documents. A short scored digest arrives each morning. The same radar covers 170+ countries, so a company selling in Germany can watch neighbouring markets with the same profile.
04How many public tenders does Germany publish?
The federal Bekanntmachungsservice first published 135,890 contract notices from January to September 2026, 51,692 of them (38.0%) under national rules, 68,556 (50.4%) EU-wide and 15,642 (11.5%) stating no legal framework, counted by TRINTA on the service's OpenData exports. The national figure is a floor: below the thresholds there is no duty to publish through that service.
05Do I have to register to read a German tender's documents?
Not in an EU-wide procedure. The notice gives an electronic address where the procurement documents can be downloaded free of charge, without restriction, in full and directly, and the contracting authority may not require registration to see the notice or the documents (sections 41(1) and 9(3) of the VgV). Registration is needed to submit a tender, on the procurement platform the notice names; on the federal e-Vergabe it is free.
May a company from outside bid in Germany?
For one established in the EU, the instrument that decides it is eu membership, procurement directives 2014/24 and 2014/25. The single market.
On the EU Official Journal, January to September 2026: foreign companies won 2.7% of award notices here, counted on the 40,792 that named a winner, against 3.8% across the EU.
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